Yves Saint Laurent - Softcover

Vreeland, Diana; Huyghe, Rene; Berge, Pierre; Picasso-Lopez, Paloma; Agnelli, Marella; Deneuve, Catherine; Michals, Duane; Boulat, Pierre; Vreeland, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300203314 ISBN 13: 9780300203318

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013

Synopsis

"I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour―to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk―but of course with luxury and dignity and style." So says Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion designer who, for over a quarter of a century, has been hailed as a fashion genius―"the master of the streets of the world" as Diana Vreeland puts it. Here are more than 200 of his greatest designs, dramatically reproduced in color and black and white. Also included are a revealing autobiographical essay by Yves Saint Laurent himself and fascinating insights by Catherine Deneuve, Paloma Picasso-Lopez, Marella Agnelli and others. [This book was originally published in 1983 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

About this title

About the Author

Stefano Pierre Berge is the longtime partner of Yves Saint Laurent, in life and in business.

From Library Journal

These small (61/4 " x 81/4") books, the first in a new series, offer capsule introductions to the achievements of three of the most important designers of this century. Berge, Saint Laurent's partner since the couturier's sensational 1962 debut, writes a brief seven-page homage to Saint Laurent's artistry, followed by 52 photographs of his most significant designs, which changed women's fashions. Carefully selected, the illustrations also show the artworks and the environment that inspired Saint Laurent. Martin, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, offers an insightful analysis of recently deceased Italian designer Versace's eye-opening fashions, which juxtapose silk with leather, street style with couture, in an unmistakable signature. Forty-nine photographs illustrate representative works of the last 15 years. Tretiack manages to summarize the house of Cartier's 150-year history into a succinct 16-page essay. While Cartier designed fancy clocks and desk accessories as well, it is the fabulous jewels that are featured here and that the reader will recognize. Certainly, these books do not approach some of the serious, in-depth publications of recent years (e.g., Yves Saint Laurent: Images of Design, 1958-1988, 1988. o.p.) or the weighty and expensive coffee-table tomes (e.g., Versace's Men Without Ties, Abbeville, 1996), but for libraries with small budgets, these quality publications can provide economical introductions to designers with whom most readers should be acquainted.?Therese Duzinkiewicz Baker, Western Kentucky Univ. Libs., Bowling Green
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Edition details

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300203314
• ISBN 13: 9780300203318
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192